:*1898-1905 [http://archives.utah.gov/research/inventories/84239.html Inventory to Series #84239] at Utah state archives. Not online, not indexed.

:*1898-1905 [http://archives.utah.gov/research/inventories/84239.html Inventory to Series #84239] at Utah state archives. Not online, not indexed.

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:*1898-1917 (gaps 1904-1912) at FamilySearch Library: {{FHL|483511|disp=FSL film 483511 items 1-2}} . There are a few births for December 1897. Some entries include names of children in the records. (Census or church records will help when names are missing.) 3 volumes of births were filmed.

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:*1898-1917 (gaps 1904-1912) at FamilySearch Library: {{FHL|483511|disp=FSL film 483511 items 1-2}} . There are a few births for December 1897. Some entries include names of children in the records. 3 volumes of births were filmed.

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:**Idea: use censuses and church records to learn those missing children's names.

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Biography(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

Cemeteries

Cemeteries(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

Census

The 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of San Juan County are available online. For tips on accessing census records online, see Utah Census. If you're having trouble finding your ancestors in national indexes, try checking local indexes. Created by experts familiar with the area's families, these indexes are often transcribed more accurately than nationwide indexes.

Monticello - Portrait of our past a history of Monticello Utah Sake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints FHL US/CAN book 979.25 K2

Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for San Juan County Wards and Branches can be found on film and are located at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the Family History Library Catalog at https://www.familysearch.org/. Or by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. (FHL book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507). These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.

Directories

Directories(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

History(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

Before 1300 the Anasazi Indians were inhabiting the land that would some day become San Juan. The cliff dwellings and petroglyphs of the Anasazi still interest many. When pioneers came to the area they not only found a wild country, but Piutes and Navajos. The Spanish explorers had left the country naming the river that flowed though the area, San Juan in memory of Saint John. The State Legislature named the county after the the San Juan River.

The County is located in the southeastern corner of the State having 7,725 square miles more land than any other county in Utah. It also has many state and national parks including Edge of the Cedars Museum and the Goosenecks of the San Juan River. The National parks include part of Canyonlands, Glen Canyon, Hovenweep and Manti-La-Sal Forest. The Natural Bridges and Rainbow Bridge National Monuments are within San Juan County, as well as Cedar Mesa and Comb Wash.

San Juan County had a great deal of growth in the 1940's and 1950's because of the uranium mines in the County and oil which accounted for 94 percent of all property tax in those years. Today the only operating Uranium Processing plant operates in Blanding, San Juan County. Today in all the towns, a major economic resource is tourism because of the many parks within the County both National and State, the other economic resources are livestock and agriculture.

History Timeline

1878 - 1895. Aneth had a variety of titles, including Riverview (1878-85), Holyoak (1886 to around 1895), Guillette, and finally Aneth, a Hebrew word meaning "The Answer," given by Howard Antes, a Methodist missionary who lived there beginning in 1895.

1879. The first white man to build a cabin in the Monticello area was likely cattleman Patrick O'Donnell.

1880. Under the direction of John Taylor, Silas S. Smith led about 230 Mormons on expedition to start a farming community in southeastern Utah. After forging about 200 miles (320 kilometers) of their own trail over difficult terrain, the settlers arrived on the site of Bluff in April 1880. (The trail followed went over and down the "Hole In the Rock", which now opens into one of the tributaries of Lake Powell.)

1880. February 17 San Juan County was created.

1887. Monticello is the county seat and was settled in July 1887 by pioneers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The families of George A. Adams, Frederick I. Jones, Parley R. Butt and Charles E. Walton went from Bluff to establish a new settlement. They first set up camp at Verdure near the South Fork of Montezuma Creek on March 11, six miles (10 km) south of what is now Monticello. By the first part of July, the men had begun to plant crops, survey an irrigation ditch, and layout a town site.

1914. First known as Grayson (after Nellie Grayson Lyman, wife of settler Joseph Lyman), the town changed its name when a wealthy easterner, Thomas W. Bicknell, offered a thousand-volume library to any town that would adopt his name. Grayson competed with Thurber, Utah (renamed Bicknell) for the prize. Grayson was renamed Blanding after the maiden name of Bicknell's wife, and each of the towns received 500 books.

1997. On October 4, President Gordon B. Hinckley, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced that the Church would begin to build a new series of "miniature temples." The first of such temples was built in Monticello.

1998. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated theMonticello Utah Temple, the first in a series of mini temples and the 53rd temple for the Church.

Maps

Maps(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

Migration

Migration(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

Native Races

Native Races(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

The Navajo Mountain Community a Social Organzation and Kinship Terminology by Mary Shapardson and Blodwen Hammond, Publication University of California Press,c 1970Family History Library (FHL) US/CAN book 970.3 N227

Military

Military(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Small town newspapers contain obituaries, birth or death notices, community news (such as the visit of someone's relatives), legal notices and provide historical content. See Utah newspapers for tips, resources, and details.

Utah Digital Newspapers Project presents newspaper images online. Search All Newspapers by name or keywords, or Browse by County to view all newspapers digitized for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy.

Newspapers(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

Obituaries

Obituaries may mention birth, marriage, spouse, parents, and living family members. See Utah Obituaries for state level compendiums and United States Obituaries for tips and insights regarding this record type.

Periodicals

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

In Utah, such records may be difficult to find. Try records of the church they may have attended. Realize, however, that such records may have not been preserved, and would not be in the typical records of membership.

It is possible there were records kept by civilian authorities. Ask town or county officials and local librarians and the State Archives. Also try National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (online).

Family History Centers

Libraries

Archives(microfilmed originals or published transcripts) are listed in the FamilySearch Library Catalog for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy. For other libraries (local and national) or to gain access to items of interest, see public libraries.

See also neighboring counties for birth information, due to family members living in that area, religious preferences, convenience, and other reasons.

1898-present

County clerks became responsible for recording births beginning in 1898. In 1905, the State Department of Health assumed responsibility and required the counties to forward copies of the records to them.

It took a few years after the requirements for people, doctors, midwives, and officials to comply, so some early birth registrations were missed.

Records open to the public

Birth records created more than 100 years agoState Department of Health Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificates page. are open to the public.

1898-1917 (gaps 1904-1912) at FamilySearch Library: FSL film 483511 items 1-2 . There are a few births for December 1897. Some entries include names of children in the records. 3 volumes of births were filmed.

Idea: use censuses and church records to learn those missing children's names.

1906-1910 online images for San Juan County, Utah Genealogy at the State Archives. Browse the "not yet indexed" area by year and county. Most entries do have names of children.

Death

1898-1917 - San Juan Register of Deaths. FHL film 483511 items 4-5. The catalog record is titled Register of births and deaths, 1897-1917 and it appears there are only 2 volumes of vital records on this film, but it appears that 2 volumes of deaths were filmed. They cover the years 1898-1905, 1910-1917.

Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed at https://www.familysearch.org/ . Utah requires a death certificate before a burial is completed. A death certificate may contain information as to the name of the deceased, date of death, and place of death, as well as the age, birth date, parents, gender, marital status, spouse and place of residence.

Voting Registers

Towns and Communities

The earliest pioneer settlers to the San Juan area were part of a group which came to be called the "San Juan or Hole-In-The-Rock Mission." The Mission was sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints or Mormon's to win the favor of the indians and to establish good relations thus they needed to find a route in that wild country. Before they could come Captain Silas Sanford Smith was asked to lead twenty-four scouts, cattle and other loose animals besides their pack-horses. Two families Harriman and Davis familys were to prepare to help the other pioneers that would take part in the "Hole-In -The-Rock Mission" A list of many of those early settlers is available online.